Mark Blair
The balance between operational efficiency and information assurance presents some special challenges. On one side of the scale, business operations need to be as efficient as possible to meet company objectives. On the other side, information security professionals seek to secure sensitive and critical information assets to protect the business, its customers, its employees, and its investors. These two efforts have an inverse relationship; as one increases, the other decreases. So what’s the answer? How do we reconcile these two opposing forces?
In the March 2007 issue of the Communications of the ACM there is an article by Stephen J. Andriole that I believe can help with these challenges (“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Technology Leaders”, p. 67). I borrowed from that article Andriole’s 7 habits of highly effective technology leaders and adapted them in an effort to differentiate security managers from security leaders. It’s the security leader who can strike the right balance between business need and information asset protection.
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